Browsing Manila Standard by Subject "mangrove conservation"

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    • Companies for mangrove planting 

      (Manila Standard, September 30, 2010, on page B3)
      The environmental projects of Philippine companies are not limited to the widely-popular green activity of tree planting. Various industry players have volunteered to initiate reforestation efforts on mangrove sites that ...

    • The dark side of prawn farming 

      Morella, Cecil (Manila Standard, April 11, 2008, on page A2)
      She helped turn many of world's prawn farmers into millionaires, but Jurgenne Primavera now worries that her life's work might have indirectly accelerated the destruction of fish nurseries. The Filipino zoologist, whose ...

    • Govt allots P400-m for Yolanda-hit mangroves 

      Pañares, Joyce Pangco (Manila Standard, March 19, 2015, on page A6)
      The Aquino administration on Wednesday released an initial P400 million to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for their mangrove and beach forest development project for areas battered by disasters such ...

    • Logistics firm plants mangrove seedlings in Batangas 

      (Manila Standard, May 7, 2019, on page C2)
      FedEx Express, together with environmental non-profit organization Pusod Foundation, Inc., recently planted 3,000 mangrove seedlings in Barangay Papaya in Nasugbu, Batangas. The mangrove-planting activitiy was part of the ...

    • Mangrove forest safeguards Nasugbu coastlines 

      Llarena, Steph (Manila Standard, October 27, 2020, on page C4)
      A 10-hectare mangrove forest in a municipality in Batangas proves that lush vegetation is the ideal solution to common environmental problems and that it is “Instagrammable,” too—red swimsuit optional. Mangrove trees play ...

    • MPIC's shore it up! soars high: celebrate a decade of coastal clean-up drive 

      Zabala, Hector (Manila Standard, March 18, 2018, on page A3)
      Everyone remembers the day Typhoon 'Ondoy' hit the country in September 2009. In just 12 hours, it brought down 17 inches of rain equivalent to a month's worth of rainfall in one day. Within just a few days, 'Ondoy' put ...

    • Planting the seeds of environmental awareness 

      (Manila Standard, February 11, 2020, on page F2)
      There’s no refuting the fact that trees are the source of life, whose value to Mother Earth cannot be denied. In the face of environmental degradation and massive deforestation, instilling the importance of trees and ...

    • Rice to riches: Vietnam's shrimp farmers fish for fortunes 

      Vaughan, Jenny (Manila Standard, August 10, 2017, on page B4)
      The Mekong Delta, long renowned as the “rice bowl of Vietnam,” is now also home to a multi-billion-dollar shrimp industry and burgeoning numbers of farmers are building fortunes from the small crustaceans. The shrimp bonanza ...

    • SMC plants 25k mangroves in Bulacan 

      (Manila Standard, July 30, 2020, on page A3)
      The San Miguel Corporation has started planting 25,000 mangroves on 10 hectares of coastal area in Hagonoy, Bulacan—the first of a total 190,000 mangroves to be planted over 76-hectares in Bulacan and Central Luzon. The ...

    • The things that count 

      (Manila Standard, March 21, 2005, on page B4)
      Bonifacio Comandante (what a symbolic name) may not grab as many headlines as the Abu Sayyaf or prized boxer of 18 years certainly deserves the gratitude of Filipinos. Comandante's victory remind us of another admirable ...